The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-30
tEoPLE WIG p1sApPEAR.
Some New York Citizens Who Have
Been Swallowed by Oblivion.
tronl the Nelo Ylolk Worl7.


who went in good at the front door of
London house to come out an evil wretch in
the back alley gave horrible shock to many
family in New York and Brooklyn still
waiting for the return of the loved one who
went out months or years ago to be black
IN few minutes" and has never since been
seen or heard of. A strange, horrible hight
was projected on the gloom of the eyerere-
current subject of~mysterious disappear
ances. Who Is there. not afraid Of being
buried alive in the grave! And yet, how
many hundreds there are i'll these cities
alone who are each year, warm with life
and the kisses of love, ehtombed in the
great sea OF humanity, never to come again
TO its surface, unless as a battered corpse
from which name, clothing, habit, the little
marks of affection and, perhaps, the very
identity of the gray matter of the brain
itself, have faded out.
No reference Is had here to the cases habit
ually reported to the police and published
IN the newspapers, nor to the lost country
men, strayed children, or boys who run
away TO sea. There is nothing very won
derful about the case of the overworked
merchant who takes the steamer for London
without saying anything about it, or the
man on spree who gets into the wrong
house, or the wild young girls who come
home and say they have been kidnapped. or
the young fellow who thinks it a good joke
to run out to Chicago and leave his friends
in New York, or of the respectable men
who meet old schoolmates and go off with
'em to talk and drink over old times; these
are ordinary affairs. 1t is not the lost souls
of great city, after ALL that are SO fearful
TO think of as the lost bodies. The identity
we prize so dearly may be so easily lost.
Nearly thirty families within easy distance
from this city still mourn young girls who
disappeared about the time the unidentified
young woman was found murdered at Rah-
way, and who thought they recognized in
her tortured features the face they had
kissed and cried over. Those thirty young
girls may now be living out in service, ig-
norant that they ever had home luxuries of
their own and name that was worth money
at the bottom of check
This would be the case of Elsie Warren,
of Jersey City, who was fonnd not long
since penniless and completely oblivious of
her past, doing excellent chamberwork IN
Brooklyn family, by relatives who have
never heard of her ever putting up her own
hair even, and were able to offer a reward
of SO, 900 for her return home. Or they
may be kept prisoners in some lonely subur-
ban house by women with no earthly object
that can ever be ascertained, as was Eliza
beth Canning, whose case set all England by
the ears on New Years day, 1888, and the
Notification of whose story is as impossible
now as twas found to be then. Or they
may have been kidnapped for improper
purpose and murdered while trying to es-
cape in vile localities in which the very in
credibilty of their presence rendered recog-
milton hopeless. Or they may have gone
shopping with their mothers, stepped to an
other part of the store to get ribbon and
vanished forever, as poor Mary Evans did
at Macy's so recently that her parents and
three sisters still live to wear mourning for
her. The beautiful young womans head
that was found in the North river in 1860,
was kept by authority of law for two years,
death mask was taken from it before ''de-
GAYS effacing fingers had swept the lines
where beauty fingers" and several photo
graphs of it are still in existence. 1t was
falsely identified over and over again, and
was said strikingly 10 resemble charming
Ada Ricard, whose head turned up sound
and safe on her own shoulders four months
afterwards, when she came home from
New Orleans. But no one knows to this
day to whom those peachy cheeks, soft eyes
and red lips beloL ged or ought to have be-
longed.
Boss" Harrington was sporting butcher
who had great many friends and acquaint-
ances in this city. He drank with a party
of friends at the Hone House in Broadway
one evening, stepped out into the night say
ing it was time to go home," and has never
since come to the surface of the ocean of
humanity. Chancellor John Lansing, of
the New York Court of Chancery, got into
cab to go to the Albany boat one after
noon, and was never seen or heard of after
wards. He was a man of family, wealth,
understanding and spotless antecedents.
Twenty years ago Guy c. Hotchkiss, Jr,
son of a well-known manufacturer in Will
hamsburg, went away from home, leaving
his fathers dlstasteful business, a young
wife and SON. Last April he came home
from a California ranch, where he had
been living like hermit. He was affec-
tionately received py his family, who had
not heard from him or of him for Just nine
teen years.
The most prominent man whose disap-
pearances has of recent years been chroni-
cled in New York was S. S. Conant, editor
of Harper's Weekly Everybody is famil-
lar with the wa be disappeared, about three
years ago, and the fact that his widow
wears weeds for him and occupies a respon-
sible editorial position in the emp oy of the
HarpeTs, for whom her husband had worked
twenty years But the belief of some of
his intimates and the story about town that
explains this singular absence have never
been published.
When fast man of business or a man of
the world disappears mysteriously, it is
given out that he has committed suicide or
met with foul play. In nineteen cases out
Of twenty it isn't So He has simply gone
off somewhere with woman who is apt as
not to be his elder in years and his better at
the bank. Often she is woman untram-
fneled by any one place OF residence, and
her absence can be connected with his bv
no clew known to the public or to the friends
of either. She may have gone for Euro
pean trip, or on a journey around the world,
or to winter in Florida-aS 1t Is, given out.
Oftener than would be thought, she is a
woman of some social position, wearing
matrimonial ties as easily as is now
so frequent in the fashionable world, and
has been living the life of woman about
town. with as much genuine enjoyment as
that with which her husband, VINO remains
at his club, Indifferent TO her movements, has
been living the predatory and selfish exis-
tence of imam about town" In New
York there is large ana growing number
of rich young men who live on the lookout
for intrigues. Women Of the world are
not slow IN discovering their existence, and
in using the private fortune of the wife, or
her allowance from her husband first for
the maintenance of these intrigues and
afterward for that Of the male intriguer.
What motive actuates an ostensibly vlrtu-
Gus and respected woman to reduce herself
i'll this way TO the standard of male NOR
atty! Generally desire to share in mas
culine pleasures Often pioue at the neg
lect of man sworn at the altar love and
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